Treading Water

Treading WaterBy: Laurie Halse Anderson Series: Vet Volunteers When the Vet Volunteers find some abandoned ducklings, they know there's no time to lose. Without a mother, the ducklings must learn to swim on their own. But where did they come from? When Brenna and the rest of the Volunteers learn that the ducklings are abandoned Easter pets, they hatch a plan to educate their community about baby animals but they also must teach the ducklings to swim before it's too

Because that's what adults sometimes have to do

Under Sarah's direction

It is impossible to move past transgression without forgiveness

especially if Marcus is watching

or walk with a goat

But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family

and explains what skills are necessary to stay ahead of the curve today

from iconic heroes and villains to a multitude of lesser-known

the investigating detective from Sydney

「過街老鼠，人人喊打」，為什麼象徵喜氣的年畫，卻以老鼠為主角？

and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history

edited by Pulitzer Prize–nominated James biographer Michael Gorra